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more and more industrial.
CHILD LABOR ABOLITION
INJUNCTION JUDGES OVER-
MOST IMPORTANT QUES-
THROW WORKERS’ CON-
TION, SAYS GOMPERS
the progress and civilization of our time
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"GALVESTON INDUSTRIAL
"GALVESTON INDUSTRIAL
WEEK —NOVEMBER 12 - 17”
WEEK —NOVEMBER 12 - 17”
A
grounded belief among the union miners
that the communists and other destruct- ’
Free labor permits of no exception.
Whether the same be in public or
To say to this universal demand of
people that the Constitution of the
Portland, Ore.—The American Feder-
ation of Labor convention revoked the
credentials of William F. Dunne, dele-
gate from the central labor council of
and subversive propaganda detribmental
to the American labor movement. Spe-
“The decisions that most vitally affect
the intimate daily lives of our people are
He may not withhold his labor.
He is not permitted to consult freely
FCHILD LABOR
DEMANDED BY DAVIS
The management of the Southern rail-
way refused to,pay the railroad shopmen
the wage rate demanded by them on
July 1, 1922, and the shopmen struck.
Later the management negotiated a set-
tlement.
Since then the Southern has progress-
ed so well that dividends on the prefer-
red stock, stopped in 1920, were resumed
and have been met regularly since.
It pays employers to pay trade union
wages.
expulsion was carried by a vote cf 27,839
to 130.
GOVERNMENT CONTROL
MENACES INDUSTRY
" The one of the blue had lost a leg,
And the other had but one arm,
And both seemed worn and weary and sad,
Yet their greeting was kind and warm.
They told of the battles in days gone by
Till it made my blood run chill,
The leg was lost in the Wilderness fight,
And the arm on Malvern Hill.
an the sacrifice of young and inocent
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ANTI-UNION OPERATORS
BACK UP COMMUNISTS
SLAVERY BY COURT
DECREES MUST END
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"GALVESTON INDUSTRIAL
WEEK —NOVEMBER 12 - 17”
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Che Ionian Review
Official Organ of Galveston Labor Council, Dock and Marine Council
gna and Affiliated Unions
Endorsed by the Texas State Federation of Labor.
ive reds have received substantial en- END O
couragement and aid from non-union
its success would be made more certain railway service have happily been en-
by the complete restriction of immigra- abled to raise their standards of living.”
And many a noble, gallant soul
Has found them passports to Heaven.”
—E. L. S.
Then the mother thought of other days,
Two stalwart boys from her riven;
How they knelt at her side, and, lisping prayed:
"Our father who ar 2 in Heaven.”
How one wore the gray and the other the blue,
How they passed away from sight
And had gone to the land where gray and blue
Merge in tints of celestial light.
" O, mother what do they mean by blue ?
And what do they mean by gray?”
I heard from the lips of a little child
As she bounded in from her play.
The mother’s eyes were filled with tears;
She turned to her darling fair
And smoothed away from the sunny brow
The treasure of golden hair.
children upon the altar of Mammon.
“The conscience of the American peo-
erican Federation of Labor convention in
session here.
“The million children who toil must
be freed from the grasp of the taskmas-
ters.
“American labor must no longer com-
pete with American childhood.”
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KEEP OUT ALL ALIENS,
UNION LABOR’S PLAN
join with them in bringing about improv-
ed standards of life and work.
“The slave is a slave because he is by
law prevented from leaving the service
of those for whom he works without
their consent.
tacks on John L. Lewis, president of the United States should be a warning to
United Mine Workers of America. The > those who now urge the throwing open
Bulletin. Dunne was charged with be-
ARBITRARY EMPLOYER
FORCES MINE STRIKE
Scranton, Pa.—A number of thousand
anthraacte mine workers employed by
the Hudson Coal Company are with-
holding their labor power as a protest
against the industrial dictatorship which
the company is charged with seeking to
impose. It is claimed that the company
management refused to adjust the min-
ers’ grievances with respect to wages
and working conditions in accordance
with the new contract.
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R. R. WAGES RAISED
BY RAILROAD UNIONS
“It is this, that the man who is free
The executive council of the American
Federation of Labor urges absolute pro-
hibition of immigrant workers from the
Unted States for a definite period in the
interest of the Americanization of the
foreigner already here.
“The cry is coming from all parts of
the country for the Americanization of
the foreigner,” says the council.
“According to the United States .cen-
sus there are 13,000,000 foreigners in the
United States, of whom 1,500,000 can not
speak English and 3,000,000 can not read
or write the English language.
“No better time could a campaign be
launched to ths end than at present, and
The abolition of child labor is the vital
question now before the American peo-
ple, President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor told the 1923 con-
vention of the Federation.
“ Modern history, modern industrial
development has brought in its wake not
only the great civilizing influences, but
it has brought great evils of great mo-
ment and menace,” said President Gom-
pers.
“There can be no greater menace to
of our ports to still greater immigration.
“Congress will be called upon to de-
cide between the greed of unfair em-
polyers and the self-preservation of our
people. ”
eremresrew s r pr •AA e . -
“The Constitution prohibits slavery
and involuntary servitude,” declares the
Chicago committee on injunctions, ap-
pointed by President Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor, in its re-
port on injunctions in labor disputes.
John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chica-
go Federation of Labor, is chairman of
the committee.
“Freedom is declared as essential to
the happiness and progress of mankind,”
the committee continues.
service of others, to withhold his labor, gone forth from one end of America to
to consult freely with his fellows and to the other that the child life of our coun-
try must be conserved at all hazards.
United States is impotent for the people
to protect the children of our time is
begging the question.
“The courts have decided that two
laws which the congress of the United
States have enacted, upon the demand of
the people of our country for the passage
of laws to protect children and minors
from undue exploitation, are null and
void; that the people through their cho-
sen representatives can not pass a law to
protect the child life of America, the
children of today, upon whom the per-
petuity of our republic and our civiliza-
tion depend.
“That is to lay the greatest indictment
against our competency.
In its report on child labor the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor executive coun-
cil urges the mobilization of the entire
trade union movement for the adoption
of organized labor’s child labor amend-
ment to the federal constitution.
The amendment was drawn by the
permanent conference for the abolition
of child labor, organized by President
Gompers in' 1922 when the supreme court
declared the second child labor act un-
constitutional. It confers upon congress
power to “limit or prohibit, the labor of
persons under 18 years of age.”
The council’s report emphasizes the
fact that the “American Federation of
Labor, since its inception in 1881, has
persistently advocated laws prohibiting
child labor, ” and has secured the enact-
ment of many state child labor laws.
The Federation also used its nation-
wide influerice to secure the enactment
of the two federal child labor laws which
were vetoed by the supreme court.
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the decisions that are made in industry,
in the workshops and factories, in the
mines and mills, in the railroads and in
the counting rooms.
“The decisions that caused more than
five million workers to be for months
without work were not decisions of con-
gress.
“The decisions that quickened the
wheels and brought men and women
back into service were not decisions of
congress. ”
They were decisions reached in indus- .
try, and are beyond the purview of the
political state.
“The largest freedom of action, the
freest play for individual initiative and
genius in industry can not be had under
the shadow of constant incompetent po-
litical interference, meddlesomeness and
restriction.
“Industry must bring order to itself
constructively, or it will have an order
thrust upon it which will be demoraliz-
ing and fatal.
“Our people can not live and thrive
under the regime of bureaucracy that
thratens unless industry solves its craft
problems.
“Trade unionism must lead the way
for true progress even at the cost of be-
ing branded as reactionary by those who
do but little save propound formulas
based upon utopian thought and devoid
of the benefit of experience and of any
cognizance of our fundamental social
structure, our industrial life or our na-
‘tional characteristics.”
“It should not be forgotten that the
advocates of the revolutionary program
who are seeking to bring about the de-
struction of the American trade union
movement through their mis-called pro-
gram of ‘amalgamation’ are hostile to
every guarantee of freedom which. Am-
erican labor holds fundamental.
“They are hostile to freedom of
speech, freedom of press and freedom of
assembly.
“They advocate the destruction, the
abrogation of the entire bill of rights
upon which modern freedom is based.
“They repudiate democracy and pro-
claim without shame or hesitation their
desire for the establishment of a dicta-
torship over the wage earners.
"What is contemplated is not merely
the amalgamation of various organiza-
tions which now function separately.
“Instead, the program is one for com-
plete disastrous revolution, for the estab-
lishment of an autocracy to replace the
democracy under which our present
status has been achieved.
“Our trade union movement must be
maintained intact at the highest degree
of efficiency and solidarity in order to
most effectively deal with the great prob-
lems with which we are confronted.
“The trade union movement out of its
experience and in accordance with the
requirements of its membership will de-
velop as it has in the past, along evolu-
tionary lines, achieving results surely
and steadily.
“It will resist to the utmost the de-
signs of self-seekers and of the advo-
cates of revolution.”
“And if he joins with others of his
kind for the purpose of securing a prop-
er return for his labor, he is guilty of
rebellion.
“Any law, or any action having the
effect of law, which restricts or denies
the rights essential to freedom, repre-
sents a very dangerous tendency toward
slavery.
“When any such law, or any action
having the effect of law, goes so far as
to prescribe restrictions of the kind
which mark the difference between the
slave and the free man, then the twi-
light, if not the darkness, of actual slav-
ery has been entered.
“Wherever slavery has reared its
monstrous form its development has
been by degrees, one restriction follow-
ing another, until in the course of time
the man has become the chattel.
“When, therefore, an injunction judge
exercising the power which has the force
of law, issues a proclamation or so-call-
ed restraining order, obedience to which
has the effect of restraining men from
exercising their constitutional rights in
a manner calculated to improve the con-
ditions under which they live and work,
he is endeavoring, either consciously Or
unconsciously, to tear the robes of lib-
erty from the shoulders of the free men
and women affected by his order and
compelling them to accept the shameful
garb of slaves.”
"Why, mother’s eyes are blue, my sweet,
And grandpa’s hair is gray,
And the love we bear our darling child
Grows stronger every day.”
"But what do they mean?” maintained the child,
"For I saw two cripples today,
And one of them said he had ‘fought for the blue,’
The other had ‘fought for the gray.’
And she answered her darling with golden hair.
While her heart was sorely wrung
With thoughts awakened in that sad hour
By her innocent, prattling tongue;
“ The blue and the gray are the colors of God!
They are seen in the sky at even,
Portland, Ore.—“The right to free
contract, the right to work or not to
work, the right to advise or not to ad-
vise some one to join with another in
the doing of such things marks the
boundary line between slavery and free-
dom.”
The executive council of the American
Federation of Labor lands this straight-
from-the-shoulder blow on the Supreme
Court of the United States in its report
to the annual convention of the Federa-
tion in session in Portland.
The statement is made in a vigorous
criticism of certain portions of the su-
preme court’s decision inethe Kansas
court of industrial relations case, in
which, according to the council, “the su-
preme court has arrogated to itself the
right to declare and prescribe the cir-
custances under which one man under
the freedom of employment doctrine may
cease employment, but may not advise
others to join with him in the cessation
of such employment.”
“Our courts have altogether too much
power, a power self-assumed and self-
asserted until we have become a judi-
ciary ruled country, ” continues the coun-
cil.
“It is not to be found in any of the
documents of our nation but rises out
of the strength of the personnel of the
court.
“The stronger always win; hence, the
personnel of the supreme court must
etiher be made up of those who intepret
democracy as democracy demands, or
else the personnel of the other branches
of government must be filled with men
stronger than the personnel of the Su-
preme Court, that the several rights and
powers of these co-ordinate branches
which have been unbalanced in favor of
the supreme court may again balance
equally.
private service, whether the laborer act
as an individual or en masse, any inter-
pretation whether by courts or legisla-
ture that denies labor in the singular or
plural (fundamental rights do not rest
on grammar—those rights were born
long before grammar was invented) to
work or not to work as he or they will
is a contravention of the constitutional
guarantee of freedom of contract, a vio-
lation of the very first precept cf the
fundamental right of free men. ”
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DICTATOR WIPES OUT
CITY GOVERNMENT
TRADE UNION “AMz:-3MATORS»
ARE MASKED COM^jISTS
REVOLUTIONISTS
Richmond, Va.— Cost-of-living wages
and no more is the favorite slogan of
anti-union employers.
The publicity department of the
Southern railway system gives a striking
tribute to the efficiency of organized la-
bor’s slogan and methods in figures as
to the earnings of Southern railway em-
ployes.
“Average earnings of our employes,”
declares the publicity department, “are
now more than $1500 a year as compared
with $880 in 1917.
“The rise in wages has been greater
than the rise in the cost of living, so
that the families of 60,000 employes
whose livelihood is gained in Southern
tion. ’ The great force in raising wages on
“Until the foreigners now in this the Southern system is the organized
Butte, Mon., and editor of the Butte . country are assimilated there can be no 1 economic power of the railroad workers.
Portland, Ore.—Present day propa-
gandists for trade union "amalgama-
tion- are communist reolutionists in dis-
guise, declares the executive council of
the American Federation of Labor in its
report to the Federation’s annual con-
vention in session in Portland.
The council distinguishes between the
“national amalgamation” of trade unions
in their normal propaganda which has
become noticeable during the past year.
The former is in line with the policy
of the trade union movement and is sup-
ported by the American Federation of
Labor.
The latter is “frankly revolutionary”
and has for its ultimate purpose not only
the destruction of the trade union move-
ment, but the eventual overthrow of the
democratic government of the United
States.”
“Propaganda in the United States,”
the council points out, “is carried on in
accord with the tenets of the Red Inter-
national, an organization which is com-
pletely under the domination and dicta-
tion of the Russian communist oligar-
chy.
“The catchword of the compaign in
the United States has been ‘amalgama-
tion.’
“In accordance with the program of
the Russian communist leaders, an elab-
orate program for the alleged ‘amalga-
mation’ of various -international unions
has been developed and secret or semi-
secret organizations have been formed
within the international unions for the
carrying out of that program.
STITUTIONAL RIGHTS
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“What is it that marks the great dif-
ference between the free man and the i th;
slave ?
success in Americanizing the citizens
ing a communist and carrying on radical born in this country. I
“Illiteracy is growing at a rapid rate. ’
“The alarming discovery made during
cial emphasiss was placed on Dunne s at- ' the war of the extent of illiteracy in the
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
"'They sat on the stone by the farmyard gate
And talked for an hour or more,
Till their eyes grew bright and their hearts seemed warm
With fighting their battles o’er;
And parted at last with a friendly grasp.
In a kindly, brotherly way,
Each asking God to speed the time
Uniting the blue and the gray.”
Washington, D. C.—John C. Brydon, •u
president of the National Coal Associa- 5
Hon and president of the bituminous op- 2
erators’ special committee, and his anti-
union -associates are guily of assisting S
the communist revolutionists to detsrov Ta
the United Mine Workers of America, 2
according, to a statement .by Ellis Searles, 2
spokesman for the Mine Workers, re- 5
specting Brydon’s manifesto criticizing 5
the Mine Workers for their exposure of C
red activities within the union. 2
“These non-union operators,” Searles 5
declares, “are as anxious as the cim- [ C
munists to wreck and destroy the United 2
Mine Workers of America. 1 5
“Both are working to accomplish the a
same purpose, and the fact that these 2
non-union operators, headed by John C. 2
Brydon, have thus joined hands with the J
communists and rushed to their defense 5
has done much to confirm the well- 2
coal operators in their various activi- ■ -------
ties.” ! Portland, Ore.—“The devastatng evil
After citing numerous incidents link- of child labor must be eliminated from
ing up Brydon and his association with American industry,” declared Secretary
the communist conspiracy against the or- of Labor Davis in a message to the Am-
ganized mine workers, Saerles contin-
ues :
“There is still much more to be un- •
covered and learned about the work of
the reds in this country, and the miners’
union believes that a thorough investiga-
tion of the mater should be undertaken
by a committee of the United States
senate. If the senate will undertake
such an inquiry and go to the bottom of
the entire subject the United Mine
Workers of America will place before
the senate committee all of its informa-
tion and data and coloperate in every
other way.
“If Mr. Brydon and his crowd of non-
union labor haters will lend the same
kind of honest help, much good can be
accomplished. And, we may add, if the
senate goes to the bottom of this thing
there are persons prominent in and out
of the coal industry who probably will
feel like running for cover.”
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A. F. OF L. OUSTS
COMMUNIST EDITOR
Portland, Ore.—Industry is menaced
. by the political state.
It is threatened by the invasion of “in-
competent political bodies.”
The fundamental liberties of the work-
ers are equally jeopardized by the auto-
racy of political bureaucrats and the
autocracy of industrial autocrats..
The workers must protect themselves
from both.
This s the warning against the con-
stant invasion of the political state in
industrial affairs which the executive
council of the American Federation of
Labor presents to the annual convention
of the Federation now in session here.
“The threat .of state invasion of our
industrial life is real,” declares the coun-
cil. “Powerful groups of earnest and
sincere persons constantly seek the ex-
tension of state suzerainty over purely
industrial fields.
“Such ignorant encroachments as the
Cummins-Esch act, the Kansas court of
industrial relations and the Colorado in-
dustrial commission act, each a blunder-
ing gesture of government acting under
the spur of organized propaganda or of
political appetite for power are examples
of what all'industry has to fear.
“The continuing clamor for extension
of state regulatory powers, under the
guise of reform and deliverance from
evil, can but lead into greater confusion
and more hopeless entanglements.
“Our'national life today is becoming
Madrid, Spain.—Gen. Primo Rivera,
military dictator who recently abolished
national constittuional government in
Spain, has taken another step toward the
/ complete destruction of democratic poli-
/ "tical institutions by abolishing city coun-
cils and city governments.
King Alfonso, who is a mere jumping
jack to execute the dictator’s orders,
signed the abolition decree when Rivera
presented it to “his majesty.”
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